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Jeff Ryckman
@jryckman3
Medical physicist➡️MD. Passionate about everything #radonc. Focus on QoL, targeted LR-PFS 🎯, constraints 🙅‍♂️, isotoxicity ⚖️ & OS. #RadOncCalc @RadOncReview
Jul 26, 2022 • 28 tweets • 26 min read
Is there a role for Local Tx of the Primary Tumor for Patients with Metastatic Cancer?

🚫Many studies demonstrate no benefit.
📌We performed a MetaAnalysis to evaluate the average effect of Local Tx across various tumors.

A thread🧵#AMSM #PRIMETX
redjournal.org/article/S0360-…

1/25 Critics of Local Tx to the Primary Tumor

📌 Many providers think local control of the primary tumor in the setting of M1 dz is akin to “closing the barn door after the horse has bolted”
📌 Ian Tannock wrote a fantastic article on this back in 2000.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11759650/

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